From Image(s) to 3D Model

May 8th, 2012 Alex Posted in 3D, cad Comments Off

Software list:

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Printrbot: Your First 3D Printer (Kickstarter)

December 18th, 2011 Alex Posted in 3D, cad, diy, electronics, manufacturing Comments Off

 

Printrbot: Your First 3D Printer (Kickstarter).

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Modeling Physically Realistic Human Motion from Monocular Video Sequences

July 10th, 2010 Alex Posted in 3D, cad, pdf, video Comments Off

Xiaolin Wei and Jinxiang Chai developed a program that tracks human bodies in videos to create animated 3D models (which can then be viewed from any angle). It will be presented at Siggraph in Los Angeles.

Download a PDF or download the video.

Via New Scientist.

gymnastics motion capture

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DIY Cheap 3D Scanner

August 27th, 2009 Alex Posted in 3D, cad, diy, hardware Comments Off

There is lot’s of different cheap design for building your own 3D scanner, here are a few:

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Convert Picture/Image to DXF

July 30th, 2009 Alex Posted in cad, gimp, pictures Comments Off

  1. First, do edge detection using GIMP (or any other image editing program)
  2. Then, convert to SVG using Inkscape (File – Import, then Path – Trace Bitmap)
  3. Save as a DXF
  4. Fix DXF in AutoCAD (because it probably created too many lines)
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Autocad: PDF plot drawing’s text as text w/ PDFCreator

August 6th, 2008 Alex Posted in cad, windows Comments Off

Autocad plot pdf text as text with PDFCreator (instead of images of text):

File – Page Setup Manager – Manage Page Setups – Page Setup Manager – Modify – Printer/Plotter, PDFCreator.pc3, Properties – Graphics – True Type Text – True Type Text as Text

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AutoCAD: Publishing (Batch plot) to single-sheet PDFs

May 20th, 2008 Alex Posted in cad Comments Off

How to have AutoCAD publish to multiple PDF files instead of one PDF
file with multiple pages:

The following variables need to be set to “0″:
PUBLISHCOLLATE = 0
BACKGROUNDPLOT = 0

In Sheet Set Publish Options, change the general DWF options “TYPE”
from Multi-Sheet DWF to Single-Sheet DWF.

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